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to think 99 percent of people would look better with a bit of tinted moisturiser, lip balm like vasaline,natural mascara and v light natural blusher

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magicpixie · 03/02/2015 11:09

most folk would look healthier, more groomed

not sayng they should do this, but that it would make them look more awake, brighter healthier

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merrymouse · 03/02/2015 19:32

It's not difficult to argue that most women don't look better with make-up though - it depends on their colouring, their age, what they are doing and how they have applied it.

I don't have anything against wearing make-up, and I admire somebody who can pull off full on red lipstick. However, the OP is wrong.

merrymouse · 03/02/2015 19:33

And I know plenty of people with straggly hair and non-ironed clothes who look fabulous.

Sallystyle · 03/02/2015 19:38

I think most people would look a darn sight better if they didn't spend hours and £££ faffing about painting themselves with crap, but don't let that stop you.

So it's not ok for the OP to say that she thinks women look better with a bit if make up on but it is ok to say that people would look better if they didn't paint themselves with crap?

Double standards.

Can't we disagree with the OP without slagging off make up wearers? It makes you no better than the OP.

KindleFancy · 03/02/2015 19:40

Properly/moderately applied you shouldn't really be able to tell you have any on. You just have a more even skin tone and your best features are emphasised. Of course anyone will look better/healthier/more attractive when that's the case.

In other news, water is wet.

Mrsstarlord · 03/02/2015 19:44

Funny, I misinterpreted the OP as saying a little bit of makeup is preferable to lots of make up. Reading back I can't see why I thought that! Confused

EdSheeran · 03/02/2015 19:50

Is it me or have we had an eerily similar thread before?

PiperIsTerrysChoclateOrange · 03/02/2015 19:57

I am struggling on the basics < depression> I don't have the time, motivation or the skill to do make up.

YesIDidMeanToBeSoRudeActually · 03/02/2015 19:59

It's very interesting to go through this thread and replace "men" where the word "women" are used eg

It's not difficult to argue that most men don't look better with make-up though - it depends on their colouring, their age, what they are doing and how they have applied it."

Sallystyle · 03/02/2015 20:07

What do people that wear make up tell their DCs about it, and don't you feel it is sad we live in a society where natural isn't enough?

I tell them I enjoy it, I enjoy playing with make up and it makes me look more healthier. I have hormonal acne and bags under my eyes . I don't give a fuck what strangers think of me but I prefer looking at myself with those flaws covered. It's fun as well, picking out makeup and skin care products.

I don't feel it is sad. I can choose not to wear it but I feel better wearing it; it's as simple as that. We could say the same over clothes, why do you wear decent looking clothes? I am sure the majority of people pick clothes for the way they look and not just their function to some extent. Yet how many people question the 'sadness' of picking out nice clothes? It is more natural to not wash hair but people don't go on about how said it is that people feel the need to wash their hair to live up to societies standards of cleanliness.

Sallystyle · 03/02/2015 20:08

sad not said

SardineQueen · 03/02/2015 20:10

Hmm not sure.

My children might well look better with a bit of slap on, as you assert, but they don't allow it at their primary school.

Am keen to hear recommendations for how to get mascara onto babies safely as well Smile

DuchessDisaster · 03/02/2015 20:13

Look better than what or who?
I see no reason to plaster my face with dubious substances. I don't need to attract a "mate" and my professional abilities speak for themselves.
Frankly, if you do not good, by which I mean, healthy and not deprived of sleep, without artificial guile, I would suggest you review your midus vivendi.

DuchessDisaster · 03/02/2015 20:14

modus, clearly. Long day securing top job, without make-up, aged 56

Summerisle1 · 03/02/2015 20:16

I'd look an awful lot better if I had a time machine. That way I could set it to go back about 30 years when I was the embodiment of unlined loveliness. Or at least had the glow of youth that meant I could go out without a face full of slap or a bag over my head.

Sorry, OP, but I'm finding your theories a bit risible!

YouTheCat · 03/02/2015 20:17

I know a year 3 girl who has started wearing foundation and mascara to school because she doesn't like her freckles and her pale eyelashes.

I find it very very sad that she places so much worth on how she looks at such a young age and spends so much time thinking about it.

Allegrogirl · 03/02/2015 20:19

YANBU but my work colleagues are not deserving of me in made up glory. I save it for nights out just to surprise people with how well I scrub up.

trixymalixy · 03/02/2015 20:25

Me too allegro. Colleagues hardly recognise me on nights out.

fluffyraggies · 03/02/2015 20:27

Made-up me looks better than un-made-up me, but weather i actually ever look healthy or awake in either state is debatable.

With the exception of putting the bins out i don't leave the house without a bit of slap on, but cant say i notice what anyone else has done with themselves. I don't judge either way.

SardineQueen · 03/02/2015 20:27

YY that used to be my mode too allegro

I always looked really different, and so felt I'd "made an effort" and thought if I wore slap all the time what would I need to do to look like I'd made an effort IYSWIM.

I'm over 40 now and do wear makeup for work though Grin so that's the way it went for me I guess!

SomethingOnce · 03/02/2015 20:44

Oh no, imagine going out blemished! The very idea!

UptheChimney · 03/02/2015 21:21

It's very interesting to go through this thread and replace "men" where the word "women" are used

Ohhh? Is this a thread about women? Shock

Oh, now I get it.

YABU

MoonlightandRoses · 03/02/2015 21:27

Did you know that Vaseline can double-up as "natural" [sic] mascara? Grin

What, place-marking, me? [Whistles innocently and rolls toe.]

Charlotte3333 · 03/02/2015 21:34

I work part time in a school. Today a kid projectile-vomited on me and it spattered my face. I won't lie, the first thing that went through my head was "I bet my flawless makeup's fucking ruined now".

I spend 90% of my time throwing glitter about and trying to prevent 4 year olds from eating pritt stick. They wouldn't care if I dressed up as Dame Edna Everage so long as I laughed at their madness and sang "Let it Go" to them seventy bajillion times a day.

tilliebob · 03/02/2015 21:39

Yeah I'd have 2 minutes in the morning to follow your directive.

Not gonna though.

I guess I just don't care about the poor sods who will have to gaze with horror upon my pasty white flabby middle aged visage.

Do I care? Not a jot!!

MagicMojito · 03/02/2015 21:41

I hate threads like this. Of course its stupid and ridiculous to say that EVERYONE should wear makeup. However let's not assume that people who DO choose to wear makeup are all made up, orange dolls with bags of spare time on their hands Hmm

I wear a full face of makeup every day. Foundation, mascara, thick black eye liner, eye shadow, Vaseline on lips. Takes me a whole extra 6 minutes!!

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